IMO, this coin is in dying phase... Manny ipo recived, and people are selling under the price they paid?? How's that possible? With that much ipo collected there should be much development allready seen.

I posted just a few posts above yours some development news. Things are moving right along and they have been very communicative.

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Also with that much ipo you should use some of it for regulating price somehow... On begginig there was huge hype..now that hype is gone... If you look at 'good' ( I mean profitable) coins they have like 300+ pages on bittalk after a while...long time here and only 50 pages?

Most of the, what you say successful, coin threads that are over 300 pages happens because someone makes a coin, hypes it, sends it to an exchange and everything works from there. This coin hasn't even launched yet. Most of the people who bought into the IPO did so expecting Safecoin to behave like every other coin - when it was clearly communicated that this was intended to be much more than just a coin/currency. It was also communicated that there would be several months of development. Discussions regarding the development happen on another website (maidsafe.org) and if you took all of those posts and placed them here you would have more than 3000 posts in this thread. But that would be counter productive as all of the relevant discussion would be lost in the cacophony.

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Also there are others who try to decentralize internet, and if they sucsed before you, well no more maid...

Over 500 developers have signed on for Maid. There is one other contender but I think that they don't have an as ambitious plan. Regardless, they still have to beat a project that has a very active development and many others who are working to provide content.

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And all this written, sorry, it means go away for me.Please don't take this as FUD, but constructive critisizm.I wish you good luck tho!cheers

Cool...I think your concerns are misguided and interpreted without a proper context.

could anyone please ELI5, whats the purpose of purchasing Maidsafe coins if this is a decentralized web?

Quick answer: Once the SAFE network is up, farmers who share their bandwidth, disk space and CPU-power will get rewarded in safecoins. People and companies who like to use the network will use safecoins to pay for them self.

The overall idea of MaidSafe is incredible. I feel like buying some just to take part in yet another great experiment.But would you really call this an investment, relative to BTC? I mean BTC is poised to go much much much much higher.Now, imagine MaidSafe becomes very accepted and is used, isn't a high price of the tokens counter productive to it's use?I'm being honest here. Again, I love the idea, but I question its use as an investment. e.g. In two years if BTC hits 10,000, does MaidSafe go up to .48 app?Are the 90% that weren't sold to be used for those wanting to take part in the network?

Thx in advance,Its about sharing

BTC = Black Swan.BTC = Antifragile - "Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Robust is not the opposite of fragile.

The overall idea of MaidSafe is incredible. I feel like buying some just to take part in yet another great experiment.But would you really call this an investment, relative to BTC? I mean BTC is poised to go much much much much higher.Now, imagine MaidSafe becomes very accepted and is used, isn't a high price of the tokens counter productive to it's use?I'm being honest here. Again, I love the idea, but I question its use as an investment. e.g. In two years if BTC hits 10,000, does MaidSafe go up to .48 app?Are the 90% that weren't sold to be used for those wanting to take part in the network?

Thx in advance,Its about sharing

The 90% will be farmed and given to developers. also developers of applications will be earning 10% of the farmers income if the farmers are using their apps

The more popular an application is, the more people use it, the more 10%'s of peoples earning potential.

Stores would need to cover costs, but they would be earning coins from people visiting their store, they would also have the ability to trade openly for maidsafe allowing them to sell directly for the currency which can then be used to maintain their applications running costs if there was any.

The price couldn't obviously be too extreme but it would depend totally like most businesses on profits. the price of a single coin wouldn't matter in regards to anything if they were making profit, if their application was making more than it cost then the price of the coin is not really that important, they have a application that earns them money , to an audience they wouldn't have otherwise. every week they are in the green they make more maidsafe than it cost to run the application.

but then you would have to go even greater in depth, people who made money are one thing, but new business and people who don't make money would likely drive the price down, unwilling to purchase for over a certain amount and following strict guidelines to ensure profitability and increased chance of success of their own applications. Which will drive price down a little but it would equalize around the middle of the 2 gaps....which are undetermined because anything currently would be purely speculator.

But it has the ability to be, not stupidly highly priced but to increase in value by much more than it is currently.